Non-completion of upper secondary school among female and male young adults in an Arctic sociocultural context; the NAAHS study

Bania, Elisabeth Valmyr; Lydersen, Stian; Kvernmo, Siv

doi:10.1186/s12889-016-3644-2

Table 1 Characteristics of the sample by registry data (NUDB), based on NAAHS variables (10^th grade)

From: Non-completion of upper secondary school among female and male young adults in an Arctic sociocultural context; the NAAHS study

		Gender N = 3987						Ethnicity N = 3987
		Females		Males		p-value		Sami		Non-Sami		p-value
	Total N (MV^a)	N	%	N	%		Total N (MV^a)	N	%	N	%
Upper secondary school	3981 (6)					^ns	3639 (348)					^§
Completion	2518	1253	63.1	1265	63.4		2283	213	58.7	2070	63.2
Non-completion	1463	734	36.9	729	36.6		1356	150	41.3	1206	36.8
Ethnicity/Gender	3645 (342)					^ns
Sámi	365	187	10.2	178	9.8
Non-Sámi	3280	1646	89.8	1634	90.2
Religious group	3987					***	3645 (342)					***
Laestadian	254	100	5.0	154	7.7		253	75	20.5	178	5.4
Non-Laestadian	3733	1882	95.0	1842	92.3		3392	290	79.5	3102	94.6
Residency	3987					^ns	3645 (342)					***
Nordland county	2104	1033	51.9	1071	53.6		1923	89	24.4	1834	56.0
Troms County	1310	674	33.9	636	31.9		1195	119	32.6	1076	32.8
Finnmark county	573	284	14.2	289	14.5		527	157	43.0	370	11.2
Parental socio-economic status	3413 (574)					^ns	3146 (841)					*
Higher administrative position	461	236	13.5	225	13.5		430	45	14.5	385	13.6
Mediate administrative position	1374	684	39.2	690	41.4		1274	122	39.4	1152	40.6
Lower administrative position	965	521	29.8	444	26.7		881	74	23.9	807	28.5
Primary industry	168	81	4.6	87	5.2		153	25	8.1	128	4.5
Blue collar work	445	225	12.9	220	13.2		408	44	14.2	364	12.8
Educational characteristics (RWD)	3933 (54)					^ns	3598 (389)					^ns
Reading and writing difficulties	797	404	20.6	393	19.9		726	71	19.7	655	20.2
Non-reading and writing difficulties	3136	1558	79.4	1578	80.1		2872	290	80.3	2582	79.8
Educational aspirations	3928 (59)					***	3605 (382)					^§
Educational aspiration higher level	865	472	24.0	393	20.1		812	86	24.0	726	22.4
Educational aspiration intermediate level	722	453	23.0	269	13.7		664	59	16.4	605	18.6
Educational aspiration lower level	1224	494	25.1	730	37.2		1102	95	26.5	1007	31.0
Educational aspiration undeceive	1117	549	27.9	568	29.0		1027	119	33.1	908	28.0

ns not significant
^§ p ≤ 0.10 * p ≤ .05 ** p ≤ .01 *** p ≤ .001
^a MV missing values

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